My inspiration comes from emotional responses, always searching to create work where others can perhaps begin to recognise themselves.
I paint to understand what I am thinking. The paintings reflect an internal landscape, created through processes of emotional reflection, primary expression and sensory stimulation. I often use nature as a starting point. The depth of natural stimuli requires me to work backwards into myself to forge a representation. The representation must ask questions of myself and the viewer; a time, a place, a person, a feeling. Or perhaps just a simple moment of reflection.
I paint instinctively and intuitively. I often mix colours straight onto the canvas and revel in the process of the unexpected, absorbing each colour and mark as it take its place within the canvas – like an old wall revealing its story.
I work on a painting constantly building then scraping away, like sculpting the surface of the canvas – sometimes making sense and then moving into an unexpected direction to deconstruct a scene or to capture the essence of a feeling or moment.